Funny what $132 million will do. After the New Orleans-shot sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" grabbed more than $51.7 million at the domestic box office on its opening weekend and another $80 million overseas, Paramount Pictures is reportedly getting to work setting up a third film in the pulled-from-the-toybox action series.

That's according to the industry paper Variety, which quotes unnamed sources as confirming the threequel reports. It's unclear where that film would shoot -- it's way too early in the game for that -- although the film's producers and star Dwayne Johnson haven't hidden their appreciation for New Orleans and the massive NASA-facility-turned-soundstage that hosted "Retaliation" in eastern New Orleans.

It's something of a reversal of fortunes for a film that many had written off after Paramount hastily scrubbed it from its summer 2012 release calendar and rescheduled it for March of this year. The stated reason for the delay was so that the film could be converted to 3D. Producers, however, also used that time for a batch of reshoots, including a reported refocusing on the friendship between Johnson's character and Channing Tatum's character.

Clearly, the decision to wait -- and to add the the 3D and the reshoots -- paid off. Not only did "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" cost less to make than its predecessor, "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra" ($130 million, compared to $175 million), but the 3D upcharge helped the sequel outearn "Cobra" by 35 percent globally, according to Variety.